Chapter 72 - You have already chosen me

He runs his fingers into her white hair soaked in Bo Ji Won's blood. "Why do you dye your hair white? Are you pretending to be a white magnolia flower?"

When she doesn't answer him, he chuckles quietly. She's resigning herself to fate. She would rather accept death.

"I understand, my dear Hana. You were acting on your mother's instinct." He traces the cesarian scar on her lower belly with his gloved hand. "You are still acting on your mother's instinct."

He pulls her legs apart and examines her inner thɨġh. Ji Won's blood is cold now. She doesn't answer him. She watches him unzips himself. He thrusts his enlarged ċȯċk. He doesn't hold back. She gasps in pain because of the sudden ȧssault.

"I am happy to see that you are acting honestly. You have no will to live. You would rather die than give in to your darkness."

He pulverizes her insides, making it painful in every way possible. Tears form in her eyes. "Hana, do you think that I don't know where our daughter is?"

Her eyes react to his words with shock. "Why?" She screams at him. "How do you know that?"

"I knew from the start. saw you running away that night. I knew where you were going." He ȧssails deeper into her as he laughs heartily. "I watched you change clothes in the alley. I saw you board the ship. I knew where you were hiding all this time."

She tries to grab for his mask. He grasps her wrists and pins them on the floor. "Hana, my dear, you can't escape from me. I didn't come to you because I knew that you would come back. I knew that you couldn't live hiding from me. You want me too. You know that nobody loves you more than I do."

"Don't hurt her," She beseeches him frantically.

"Ha-Neul has your eyes." His voice is darkly alluring. "When I held her, she smiled at me. She recognized me as her father."

"No, you aren't her father." Her helpless sobs fill the cold room. "Her name is not Ha-Neul."

"You didn't give her any name." He is satisfied to see her like this. All hope is not lost. His Hana is not completely gone. He won't kill her yet. She will give in. If she didn't have any hope, she would have named the child differently. She wouldn't have come back to him.

"Close your eyes."

She is in too much in pain. Her body is covered with Bo Ji Won's and her blood. She doesn't stop crying. She's afraid for her daughter. She can't fight this man. She can't win.

"Close them." He grasps her small peak. "Otherwise, I will gouge them out now. You will never be able to see our daughter again."

The thought scares her to the core. She closes her eyes in the next instant. He rolls his mask up, revealing only the lower half of his face. Ahn Hana has lost a lot of weight. She's bones mostly. "You haven't been taking care of your body."

"Where is my daughter?" She asks him with her eyes closed. She knows that she will die the moment she looks at his face. "What did you do to her?"

He doesn't answer her questions.

"Stop fighting your love for me, my Hana. Submit yourself to me." He embraces her affectionately. "We will start a new life with our Ha-Neul."

Ahn Hana trembles when his lips brush against her skin. He showers her with ravenous kisses. The blood doesn't disturb him. Instead, he finds her more captivating this way. He sucks the curve of her neck. He grazes his lips on her collar bone. She lets out a strangulated mȯȧn. He is unable to hold back and bites her almost white earlobe, leaving a red mark on her ear. She lets out a soft gasp.

"Hana, you are mine. I love you and I know that you love me too," He tells her with a soothing voice. "I understand that you are in pain. I live every day watching you suffering. You keep struggling between right and wrong. You don't want to submit to your true self."

She screams in pain when his teeth sink into her brėȧst hard. He licks off the tears on her cheeks. The gentle brushes of his lips on her face don't match his continues ȧssaults into her ravaged tunnel to hear her scream more. The pain triggers something in her mind.

"Ah... more... ah... " Her screams turn into sensual mȯȧns. "Ahh...want more..."

His fingers curl around her pale and slender throat. Her face contorts in pain. Her teeth pierce her lower lip when he begins to choke her. She scratches his hands coiled around her neck. She still doesn't open her eyes and looks at his face. He is on the verge of breaking her neck. Her body struggles naturally to save itself until it becomes limp.

He loosens his fingers. He looks at her unmoving bruised body beneath him and sighs sorrowfully. He draws out his pėnɨs from her body. It's covered with her blood. He plants a kiss on her forehead and strokes her head.

He can't kill her. His Hana is still in there.

"I know that you need some time. You have already chosen me, but you are being cowardly. Ha-Neul and I will be waiting for you. I hope that you find the courage to find us and make our family whole."